Someone tell me all the horrible effects of smoking whilst breastfeeding

[BelinaTheChicken]

cos I'm really struggling with cravings right now, and I really really don want to take it up again, but worried that I will

For the time being though, I am still breastfeeding DS2, so please talk some sense into me and tell me the horrible things I'll be doing to the DC if I start smoking again

YOU'LL STINK !

Oh and they are going up by 38p a pack at 6pm tonight.
But seriously your having a wobble. That's OK. You've come here for some support and hopefully the craving will have passed soon.

Also can you go see your practice nurse and get some replace products? when DS was 6 months I hit a rough patch I got some inhaler thingys and just having them in the house helped. I didn't end up using them.

You will stink and so will baby he won't smell all baby like-just all smoky. You can do this some great advice above about getting replacement products :)

Yy, you wil stink. People will recoil from your stinky breath whilst trying to look like they're not.

Oh and the nicotine will be in your breast milk - so don't do it.

I've seen the tables that life insurance companies use to price your cover. They have four: male, female, smoker, non-smoker, but actually you only need two, because a smoker's risk is essentially double that of a non-smoker, regardless of age or sex.

It will take 15 years for your risk of death to reduce all the way to the level of a non-smoker, but it starts improving noticeably seconds after your last cigarette. By the time your DS is doing his GCSEs it will be as if you'd never smoked, and you will have done your best to give him what he needs most of all: his mum. If you give in now, you'll have to start that journey all over again - because he needs you alive.

Yes, I will smell awful! People will recoil from my stench

Nicotine in milk... What does that do to the baby? I'm working tonight and although I can't smoke on shift, I have prime smokin opportunities before and after, and a break, and I'm working with a smoker... Planning on re reading this thread everytime I feel myself wavering

Dilys great post, makes me a bit wibbly at the though of DS doing GCSEs!

Belina - well done on getting so far with giving up. It's soooooo tough.
If you give in now you'll stink and your baby won't recognise you from your smell. All the chemicals in the fags will be passed to your baby through your milk and breath.

Giving up smoking is bloody hard, but it's totally worth it. You can do it!

Here is some LLL info, I have quoted some scary bits for you

"Heavy smoking can reduce a mother's milk supply and on rare occasions has caused symptoms in the breastfeeding baby such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea."

"Smoking has been linked to fussiness. In one study, 40% of babies breastfed by smokers were rated as colicky (two to three hours of "excessive" crying) as compared with 26% of babies breastfed by nonsmokers."

And here is the BfN factsheet- apparently the breastmilk of a mother who has recently smoked tastes like fags- ewwww!

You can do it! You don't need a smoke!

Fag flavoured milk

Will read through the website on my break, that will stop me going out for one

Heading off to work via DH's work (DC with my parents tonight), and he is a smoker so will chew some gum or something whilst I'm there

Just checking in to see how it went.
hoping you got through OK.

Just wanted to say, Well done on giving up!